This is a bow I built for my brother in Oregon. I started by making some rough sketches of how I wanted it using some cut outs from previous builds. I had a full panel of grey action wood, I made some cuts for my riser and wedge set, I then ground my wedges on my sled first into tapers and then made them into parallel wedges.

I then took some action boo flooring and ripped off the tongue and groove and them ripped them down to 1 ¾” wide on the table saw. Next I resawed some a-boo and action wood rough parallels on my band saw.

The next step was to come up with a laminated veneer to go on the belly and back of the limb. I started with action wood split with a-boo and maple. After the glue was cured I ran it through my drum sander and resawed it in to 5 lams, I ran one practice down to see how thin I could make them, I brought them down to .015”

I then received some materials to start the I beam of the riser. I started with a 2”x2”x20” block and cut it in half length wise and ran I through my drum sander. I also ran my phenolic through the drum sander.

I then was ready to cut the second radius on the belly side of the riser. After cutting it on the swing jig I hand sanded again and added one more strip of red phenolic and another stack of .100” parallels, the .125” would not make the tighter radius.

I did not get any pictures of grinding the lams but I used the same drum sander with my dedicated 60 grit lamination sand paper. The stack up from belly to back goes. Clear glass, veneer, .002” per inch a-boo taper, action wood wedge, action wood parallel, veneer and clear glass. I used compressed air only to clean the lams.

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